Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People gave Thernstrom no chance to finish sentences. He began on foreign aid to India; someone asked him about Hungary. A sailor heckled him, told him how lucky he was to be in college, then launched into a tale of ten years in the Service...
...fact, one of the most interesting features of Monday night's episode was the inhibitions both men seemed to feel; both Nixon and Kennedy have been known to exhibit an "instinct for the jugular" in dealings with their party colleagues, yet neither was willing even to try to finish off his man before 70 million television viewers. Although a little ruthlessness may well be what the Presidency needs (and although both candidates have in the past displayed adequate supplies of this rather debatable virtue), ruthlessness does not sell well on television, so Kennedy and Nixon have thus far avoided...
...year-old Red Sox slugger, who had previously expected to finish the season on the road with the Boston team, decided after the game to call it quits with his fitting round-tripper. "I'm convinced I've quit at the right time," Williams told the Associated Press in the dressing room...
Royal Oak Township's Carver Elementary School is "a cinderblock monstrosity," is it? Well, this is the school I had to build in a nearby village one day last year toward the finish of the monsoon, and in two days of end-of-monsoon rain, it looked like this (see cut). When the four months' rain totaled 250 in., the kids moved into a 10 by 10 cowshed darker than the Black Hole and as miry as Andersonville; and when the cows needed shelter we had to move out again...
...same puzzling grin and waved the orchestra through both pieces without a flaw. During the last test selection-a tricky, untitled tone poem composed by Judge Bigot to tax contestants-Jorgensen drove the orchestra through the score so fast that the string section was glazed with perspiration at the finish. He won first prize hands down. For all his clowning, he had proved himself, in the words of Judge Bigot, "a truly great young conductor...